8-STABLE And fxp Driver

2011-11-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Is there are known recent problem with the fxp driver and 8-STABLE. I buildworld/kernel every 7-10 days and I have recently begun to see a bunch of Link Down/Link Up messages. Before I tear through cables, switches, and other hardware, I want to make sure this isn't some recently introduced

Re: 8-STABLE And fxp Driver

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: 8-STABLE And fxp Driver Is there are known recent problem with the fxp driver and 8-STABLE. I buildworld/kernel

Problem with ICH4 fxp driver and FreeBSD 6

2006-11-03 Thread Stefan Kohl
Hi all, I am encountering a strange problem compiling a kernel for a MS-6557 mainboard (a Hermes 845GV) with Intel845GV Chipset. Everything is OK with the GENERIC 6.0 Kernel; but as soon as I install a self compiled kernel (6.0 or 6.1), I get fxp driver timeouts. On loading the if_fxp.ko

fxp driver performance expectations

2006-06-15 Thread Paul Marciano
Hello. I am running FreeBSD-5.4 on a 3GHz P4 with two Intel fxp NICs running IP forwarding with polling enabled. For larger packets (e.g. 700 bytes) I am getting 100Mbps throughput port to port. For min-size packets (64 bytes) I am only seeing around 60Mbps. Increasing HZ and the polling

Re: fxp driver performance expectations

2006-06-15 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Paul Marciano wrote: For larger packets (e.g. 700 bytes) I am getting 100Mbps throughput port to port. For min-size packets (64 bytes) I am only seeing around 60Mbps. Increasing HZ and the polling parameters does not help. You should be aware that the minimum

Re: fxp driver performance expectations

2006-06-15 Thread Danial Thom
--- Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am running FreeBSD-5.4 on a 3GHz P4 with two Intel fxp NICs running IP forwarding with polling enabled. For larger packets (e.g. 700 bytes) I am getting 100Mbps throughput port to port. For min-size packets (64 bytes) I am only

Re: fxp driver performance expectations

2006-06-15 Thread Paul Marciano
--- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't do 100Mb/s with em on a 100Mb/s line with min packets, because there are gaps between packets so its impossible. Thanks for the detailed reply Danial. By 100Mbps I mean line-rate: 148809 packets/sec for 64-byte Ethernet frames + IPG and

Re: fxp driver performance expectations

2006-06-15 Thread Danial Thom
--- Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You couldn't do 100Mb/s with em on a 100Mb/s line with min packets, because there are gaps between packets so its impossible. Thanks for the detailed reply Danial. By 100Mbps I mean line-rate:

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
what about a ping from the 845G to the labbox, does that do the same thing? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Gonzalez Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 11:12 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FXP driver Hi, I've

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-21 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Hi Ted, what about a ping from the 845G to the labbox, does that do the same thing? Both are lab boxes, I assume you refer to the other AMD box. Yes, all pings to all destinations, within the subnet, outside the subnet and outside the entire AS show the same thing. I've been playing around now

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-21 Thread Danial Thom
] Behalf Of Daniel Gonzalez Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FXP driver Hi, I've build a new P4 box (1.8Ghz, 512MB mem) based upon a ASUS P4B533VM motherboard. This board has an Intel 845G chipset and onboard 10/100 mbit/s LAN (fxp driver

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
your entire dmesg output, please? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:29 AM To: Daniel Gonzalez; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FXP driver Thats the sort of thing that happens when interrupts

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-21 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Ted, sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled Yep, I see the same. Could you post your entire dmesg output, please? After Daniel's response I've been playing around again, disabling all sort of controllers. Still no luck so far. I can't post my dmesg

FXP driver....

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Gonzalez
Hi, I've build a new P4 box (1.8Ghz, 512MB mem) based upon a ASUS P4B533VM motherboard. This board has an Intel 845G chipset and onboard 10/100 mbit/s LAN (fxp driver). When connected directly to a gateway (in my case an Extreme BD10k) I observe the following behaviour: a ping

RE: FXP driver....

2005-08-19 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Daniel, I haven't used the fxp driver in a while but you can check out the man page for the driver (man 4 fxp) and it mentions that you can disable autoselect for media type and speed. I remember reading in an article (I can't locate the URL) that the autonegotiation between the NIC and switch

fxp driver on freebsd 4.7?

2005-01-02 Thread Vincent Chen
time while I tried to run ifconfig on fxp0. Did I do anything wrong using loadable module? Or loadable module support not stable on this release. The second time, I compile fxp driver to my new kernel and every thing seem work ok. This 82550 adapter has 3des support bulletin, how can I identify

Re: fxp driver on freebsd 4.7?

2005-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
. Or loadable module support not stable on this release. 4.7 is very old, so I doubt anyone remembers specific problems in this release. The second time, I compile fxp driver to my new kernel and every thing seem work ok. This 82550 adapter has 3des support bulletin, how can I identify

interface aliases with the fxp driver

2004-07-26 Thread Chris Boyd
255.255.255.255 Works as we'd expect. This was observed on 4.9-RELEASE and 4.10-STABLE I've not tried it on boxes with other kinds of Ethernet cards yet. Is this normal, or a bug in the fxp driver? Thanks! --Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Problems with fxp driver in FreeBSD 4.9 release

2004-05-10 Thread Aman Shaikh
Hi I am having trouble with the 'fxp' driver in FreeBSD 4.9-release. The card I am using is an Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet card. For some reason, the driver always says no carrier. For example, fxp1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:fe62

Re: Problems with fxp driver in FreeBSD 4.9 release

2004-05-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 10, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Aman Shaikh wrote: Hi I am having trouble with the 'fxp' driver in FreeBSD 4.9-release. The card I am using is an Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet card. For some reason, the driver always says no carrier. For example, have you tried different cables, different ports

Re: Problems with fxp driver in FreeBSD 4.9 release

2004-05-10 Thread Aman Shaikh
Hi I am having trouble with the 'fxp' driver in FreeBSD 4.9-release. The card I am using is an Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet card. For some reason, the driver always says no carrier. For example, have you tried different cables, different ports on yoru switch/hub/router/etc? Just to rule

maximum number of addresses/networks on 5.0-Release fxp driver?

2004-04-06 Thread Isaac Hopkins
Hello All, I ran into a weird problem today, basically I can only have four IP's on my fxp0 card if I try to add a fifth it's like it overwrites the 1st address. Any suggestions? please cc:email thanks Isaac Hopkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: maximum number of addresses/networks on 5.0-Release fxp driver?

2004-04-06 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isaac Hopkins Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: maximum number of addresses/networks on 5.0-Release fxp driver? Hello All, I ran into a weird problem today, basically I